Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [det] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even where direct sunlight is received for much of the day , its heating effect is severely restricted by high winds and high humidity ( Green & Harding 1983 ) . |
| 2 | Dr. Thackeray had never seen or prescribed for any of the patients at the asylum . |
| 3 | Both teams 's lack of scoring power always threatened a goalless draw and there was little to suggest the deadlock would be broken for most of the match . |
| 4 | No recreation was arranged for those of us in outlying areas . |
| 5 | " He 's arranged for some of his men to come along — it 's very heavy , you know — and he wondered whether you want it moved upstairs or downstairs . " |
| 6 | Screen metaphors have been developed for each of these areas to make location in the system a graphical attribute . |
| 7 | Although we had been in the land of constant daylight for several days , the sun had been hidden for much of the time by high cloud . |
| 8 | Too small even to be found on many maps , too hidden for any of its innocent affairs to be worthy of attention , Granard seemed no longer to be part of the priest 's past . |
| 9 | Anyway , she was above all the lads in our year — she liked stringing them along but she could n't have fallen for any of them . |
| 10 | In recent years , the Shetland summer season has been tainted for many of us by the knowledge that thousands of our sea-birds have failed to raise any young . |
| 11 | For both parts of the experiment , for each trial ( represented by columns 1 to 12 in each word list ) , the experimenter simply ticked each word correctly recalled and totalled the number of words recalled for each of the 20 serial positions . |
| 12 | MAI Systems Corp , the Irvine , California maker of small business computers that just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection ( CI No 2,147 ) , listed $26.1m in assets and $145.0m in liabilities ; Brooke Group Ltd , which is controlled by MAI chairman Bennett LeBow , owns 82.3% of MAI 's voting securities ; the largest unsecured creditor listed in the filing was Chemical Trust Co. of California , trustee for $40m of 11.75% senior subordinated debentures ; the obligations listed for most of the other creditors were mostly for $4m or less . |
| 13 | Group and subgroup means ( SEM ) were calculated for all of the proliferative data . |
| 14 | A phased return of responsibility from the army to the civilian police was begun in 1976 and had been completed for most of the region by early 1977 . |
| 15 | Travel Delay — If your arrival in the resort on the outward journey , or at your UK destination on the return journey , is delayed for any of the specified reasons for more than 8 hours , you may claim £30 plus £15 for each subsequent completed 8 hour period up to a maximum of £105 in all . |
| 16 | Lane accepted it without comment , although at another time he might have pressed for more of an answer ; he was n't a man who liked to be kept in the dark . |
| 17 | The British , who play the Americans in three more Tests as part of their extensive preparations for Barcelona , dominated for much of the match , but their poor shooting form , combined with a great display by the home goalkeeper , denied them . |
| 18 | Not far distanced from the council , in England at any rate , was Parliament , dominated for much of the fourteenth century by the peerage ; and in that body , too , matters of policy and national finance were frequently discussed , for it was there that kings liked to benefit from the practical experience of men who had taken an active part in war . |
| 19 | The seascape , dominated for most of the year by grey sky , grey sea , brown sand , was splashed with bright colours today : a white motor-boat whining past dragging a water-skier in a brilliant orange wet suit ; a wind-surfer 's sail bellying out in blue and red stripes , silver heart-shaped helium balloons joggling above the slow-moving crowds ; women in egg-yolk yellow , lime green , shocking pink … . |
| 20 | Following this initial research , a questionnaire was designed for each of the core services of audit and tax which was sent to either the chief executive or finance director of 100 client companies . |
| 21 | On the one hand it led to the concept of art education rather than craft training , with the professor-student relationship substituted for that of the master-apprentice . |
| 22 | The tags in the LOB corpus and Text710 dictionary were then substituted for those of the combined tagset . |
| 23 | For a sample with different atoms the result is simply a superposition of those expected for each of the constituent atoms . |
| 24 | Even for severely ill patients a good long term outlook can be expected for most of those undergoing transplantation ; the overall survival of 70% at a mean of 69 months for those discharged from hospital after such an operation compares favourably with the long term results of cardiac transplantation worldwide . |
| 25 | Moreover , in contrast to much of Buxtehude , the spaces are occupied for most of the day so that space is not freed for other uses , such as children 's play or adults ' talk . |
| 26 | The following table shows how the repayment period varied for each of the four main samples , once people knew all the cost information , depending on what order they had been shown each set of cost figures . |
| 27 | Sterling was probably overvalued for most of the period from 1950 to 1967 , especially against the European and Japanese currencies [ Allsopp , 1979 ] . |
| 28 | ‘ Looking back on it now , it was a tour not to be forgotten for those of us who went on it . |
| 29 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 30 | Labour 's employment spokesman was blamed for much of the confusion which arose at the TUC on the issue . |